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5. ORGANISING EVENTS: THE EXAMPLE 
OF THE COPERNICUS MARINE GENERAL 
ASSEMBLY 
During the 2015-2021 period, Mercator Ocean International 
has organized or participated in many events, thematic 
workshops or training workshops (Giordan et al., this issue). 
The COVID-19 pandemic forced us to switch all face-to-face 
to online events, hence losing the warm and friendly social 
atmosphere but opening new opportunities with online 
digital platforms dedicated to event organization. 
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For example, MOi has successfully organized the first 
anline Copernicus Marine Service General Assembly in 
January 2021 (Figure 5). It gathered all Copernicus Marine 
Service partners and teams, including: 
- Monitoring and Forecasting Centres, 
- Thematic Assembly Centres, 
- Central Information System, 
User Uptake and Service Evolution projects. 
The General Assembly served to review the achievements 
of the Copernicus Marine Service over the period 2015 
- 2021 and build future plans. It was a successful event 
Jgathering: 
-11,2 k visits on the homepage of the virtual platform, 
635 unique participants, from more than 77 countries, 
and with a total of 16 hours of broadcast, 
5000 visits on virtual booths.